Archive for the 'Digital Cities' Category

OneCommunity “A Network of Innovation and Growth”

OneCommunityOneCommunity is a nonprofit organization that serves Northeast Ohio by connecting public and nonprofit institutions to the next-generation fiber-optic network, enabling those institutions to offer enhanced, innovative solutions, and transforming region’s image and economic future by attracting outside investment and creating business and job opportunities. Continue reading…

Broadband Cities 2008 global conference will be hosted in Trikala

inec_logoThe city of Trikala in Thessaly, central Greece, will organise the annual global conference of Broadband Cities 2008 in October, following its designation as the host city during the 9th INEC (International Network of e-Communities) conference held in Amsterdam and Almere, Netherlands, host of the Broadband Cities 2007 event. Continue reading…

Urban Computing and Its Discontents

Urban Computing and its DiscontentsThe Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series, published by the Architectural League of New York, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How are our experiences of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies? How will the ability to design increasingly responsive environments alter the ways we conceive of space? Continue reading…

Top U.S. Digital Cities for 2007

Digital Cities SurveyAmerican cities that excel in the digital arena are being recognized by the Center for Digital Government as found from the 2007 Digital Cities Survey. The seventh annual study examines how cities are using technology to create a seamless environment between local government and constituents. Continue reading…

Google Earth - How Google maps the world

How Google Earth works Credit: Bryan ChristieTechnology Review explains how aerial photos and satellite images are combined to create one of the most useful tools on the Internet, Google Earth. The magazine interviewed engineers at Google and at ­DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google’s satellite photos, and did a little bit of reverse-engineering to figure out how it works. Continue reading…

Is the failure of Municipal Wi-Fi Networks the dawn of e-services to citizens?

The dawn of new e-servicesCurrently, all over the web numerous articles and posts can be identified that are elaborating on the epidemic of the Municipal Wi-Fi networks failures. For example according to an article recently published in WIRED, two major and immense publicised projects in San Francisco and in Chicago have failed. Continue reading…

Google WiFi in San Francisco Continued…

Google_WiFi_failedAccording to that latest report by Chris Nuttall, FT.com correspondent, in San Francisco the “Muni WiFi” movement has been dealt a double blow with the collapse of its San Francisco and Chicago schemes to provide blanket wireless coverage. Continue reading…

First year of Google WiFi in Mountain View

Google WiFi Mountain View Coverage MapGoogle’s Mountain View Wifi network is one year old. The network has 400+ mesh routers, covers 31 square kilometers (12 square miles) and 25,000 homes. Google has released interesting statistics on how many people are using it, traffic growth, percentage of use, etc.: Continue reading…

Top Ten Digital Cities of the World

new_songdo_city.jpgAustralian newspaper “The Age” has created a list of top ten digital cities of the world based on the following criteria: Broadband speed, cost and availability, wireless internet access, technology adoption, government support for technology, education and technology culture, and future potential. Continue reading…

Building The Perfect Council Website

eGov_ConferenceA partnership between E-Government Bulletin and the Socitm Insight Programme, the event draw on the collected wisdom of eight years of Socitm’s annual ‘Better Connected’ review of all UK council websites and feature the Better Connected reviewers’ own insights, plaudits and brickbats. Interactive workshops will cover issues in detail including usability, and the use of third party software. Continue reading…